Recent content by MagnaDrake

I hope Pocket takes off well enough that TPC and TPCi can seriously consider transferring TCG Live development to DeNA instead.

It's also playable. One funny thing you can do with her is fetch her with Lumineon V, then bench down a Squawkabilly ex, then discard your hand twice for a total draw of 11 cards, going first. Just like the good ol' days of Lele into Lillie into Dedenne.

To be fair MTG is down because Kamigawa Neon Dynasty was such a home run set across all regions back in 2022 it became a statistical outlier in and of itself. No other set since then has come up even close, but generally speaking Magic is still THE card game behemoth. I do agree they're...

As long as anime exists and Bushiroad doesn't fold itself, Weiss Schwartz will always be a thing.

That one has the Future Pokemon attribute on it which adds a bit of complexity that's outside of Level 1 products. Sure you can just handwave and ignore it but it would be sort of out of place.

Unlikely. Virtually none of the ex cards on the japanese starter decks has any meta relevance, and even on casual play they're not that good. The only reasonable ones were Decidueye, Miraidon, and maybe Dragonite (although Greninja got some usage bump with the release of the Fighting Tera ex in...

oh come on man its been ages since we've gotten a good rule box kyogre.....

I can't really tell if Roto Stick is good or not.

Yup. Could either replace Zamazenta or bring it along both, although I don't know what to cut if so. They serve the same purpose with different benefits and drawbacks. Heatran is definitely preferable after reshuffling all of your energies back to deck via rod/Basculegion, but Zamazenta can...

Heatran seems decent. Has both higher floor and ceiling than Zamazenta with a little bit more investment.

Discarding 3 other cards is a pretty tall order for decks that don't want to discard. The one deck that this is an obvious shoehorn currently is Lugia VStar, and maybe Chien-Pao/Gholdengo. Other decks not so much, because they usually can't afford to discard that much early, or have good enough...

I'm guessing that the idea is to set up multiple Poliwhirls and cycle them as you hit and run.

Palafin ex works more like a convoluted stage 2, but yeah.

Blissey has been allowed to match Stage 2 HPs since at least SM era, maybe older. If I remember correctly it had a 160HP non-rule box card at the time where stage 2s range from 150-170. Its ex having 300 where stage 2 exs ranges from 300-330 is more or less expected, maybe a bit under. I think...

Is there a stage 1 with higher HP dan Blissey ex currently? Only ones I can think of are Melmetal ex and Copperajah ex, which only matches the 300 number, and Wigglytuff ex needs a special energy to surpass that. Also Brambleghast after 4 prizes, I guess, but these are all outside of Mask of Change.